"I want to know what my father told Mi Zhen when he came over tomorrow?" At this moment, outside the palace of Prince Gaomi, the eldest son Rong Qingzui was also asking King Gaomi the same question.
The King of Gaomi pinched his forehead tiredly, and Rong Qingzui immediately walked forward and pinched his shoulders and neck. Judging from his skillful leg movements, it was obvious that he personally served the King of Gaomi like this often.
Seeing this, King Gaomi put his legs down and stared at the golden longevity star's bamboo-jointed egret pot in front of him in a trance. Speaking of which, the pot was one of the congratulatory gifts given by the crown prince and his wife on his birthday a few years ago.
Although King Gaomi had previously owned a golden pot given by the late emperor, and he was very fond of it, but it did not reflect the prince's attention and favor, so he immediately replaced the golden pot.
This move shows how firm and considerate the support of Prince Cuo is.
At that moment, looking at the respectful and filial figure of the prince behind him from the smooth polished body of the golden longevity star bamboo-jointed egret pot, King Gaomi felt a sense of sadness for no reason. After a while, he said calmly: "What can I say to him?" Naturally, it’s a showdown.”
The kneading on the shoulders stopped for a while, and then continued, Rong Qingzui carefully weighed his words before speaking: "Father, my son is stupid. There is really no third brother who is suitable to be the heir..."
"But I am not his eldest son!!!" King Gaomi's suddenly high-pitched voice startled the prince. He immediately took two steps back, walked out from behind King Gaomi, lifted his robe and knelt down: "Father, please calm down!"
"I thought my father's refusal to change my secret virginity was out of selfishness?" King Gaomi looked at the crown prince kneeling in front of him. Did he really have no strength to sigh? He endured it again and again before he could hold back his anger. , let him get up first, and said again, "Since ancient times, there have been direct descendants but no direct descendants... Is there any reason for this?" Aren't you afraid of external chaos? I am now saying that Mi Zhen is more suitable to be the crown prince than me. Is it because he is more talented than me? This is not true! "
"But have I thought about it?"
"After all, Mi Zhen grew up in front of his father, and he is his right-hand man. Many of them have never even met him!"
"In that case, Dong, just because he is better than me, I will make him the crown prince. Not to mention what my wife and my Dong's heirs will think. I know that the ministers who are on our side include me. Will my father-in-law rebel?"
Rong Qingzuo murmured: "Father, but my uncle and the others..."
"My uncle and the others do appreciate Mizhen very much, but so far, they have only admired him. They have not gone to the extent of instigating him to become the crown prince!" King Gaomi said happily, "And although they are ruthless, Mi Zhen has been somewhat protective of me. After all, I have watched them grow up, and my character has always been well-known. People are not just grass and trees, but they can be ruthless. Even if they think Mi Zhen is more suitable to be the heir apparent than me in terms of talent, I think there are some I am so ruthless as to persuade him to abandon me?!"
"But the fact is that the third brother is more suitable to be the heir apparent than the child." Rong Qingzui hesitated for a while and insisted, "And the third brother has suffered so much in the past years..."
"Qingzhu, why don't I know how to be popular?" King Gaomi laughed angrily, "The Meng family has not been eliminated, and now we have changed the heir apparent. Isn't it self-defeating?! I just look at the Meng family, Gao Chengxuan is so outstanding I thought the Gao family could really swallow it?! I thought Marquis Wu An didn’t feel sorry for him?! Why didn’t he deny it before and let it go, even sending Miss Meng Wu and his wife back to the south of the Yangtze River? "
"In the final analysis, we are afraid that things will get serious and give us an opportunity to take advantage of it!"
"No matter how good Mi Zhen is, she is not good enough to influence the situation between us and the Meng family!"
"If he is really that powerful, there is no need for me to give up my position as Crown Prince to him!"
"So, I will give him the position of heir apparent with determination, and he will never talk about giving it up to anyone again!"
"Otherwise Mi Zhen didn't come up with the idea of taking my position, and Didong's people would be in a state of confusion... Then how could he fight against the Meng family?!"
He talked earnestly for a long time, frowned when Rong Qingzhu was not convinced, and continued patiently, "He has just made an agreement with Mi Zhen, he will go to Western Xinjiang, and I will go to the coast. He will let Tortoiseshell Island Those people are cooperating with me to recruit the pirates, and they ask for 70% of the money we get from the pirates!"
"There is nothing in Western Xinjiang, but recruiting the third brother of the pirates has a natural advantage." Rong Qingzui is a kind person. He originally felt that his brother had been living outside for many years and suffered a lot. As the eldest brother, he was very It's time to give in. Then I heard that King Gaomi clearly suppressed Rong Suihe, and even quite literally held Rong Suihe in his arms to build a stage for his prince. I felt it was unacceptable, "And it can be seen from Tortoiseshell Island that the pirates are You can recruit brave and brave men for your own use, and the wealth they can accumulate is also very considerable...Father, if you do this, you will not be a child, but you will make your third brother very disappointed in the palace!"
"Such a father and son are separated from each other and their brothers are separated from each other. What a good family... let alone the mother and concubine, how can they explain it?!"
King Gaomi stared at him for a long time, then sighed and said, "I can rest assured about that! Mi Zhencuo turned out to be very satisfied."
Rong Qingzuo didn't believe it: "Father, my third brother has not been back for a long time, and the gap between us has not gone away. He sometimes behaves in a quiet and arrogant manner. How can we care about him? You can't care about the angry words he said at that time." Seriously!"
"Qingzui, do I really...do I honestly tell his father that he has nothing to say?" King Gaomi sneered when he heard this, "I thought Mi Zhen could return to Chang'an in glory after falling into a bandit den, otherwise A fuel-efficient lamp?!”
Seeing Rong Qingzhu's confused look, he closed his eyes and calmed down before continuing to explain, "Mizhen's wedding is very grand. My sister-in-law's dowry and the betrothal gift from our family will cause enough sensation." The city of Chang'an is said to be tens or even hundreds of years old. Especially my sister-in-law's dowry, and the fact that she was so favored that the heads of the three most powerful families in Nanfeng County came to Chang'an to give her a wedding... I thought those things Son, is it really as simple as whether the Sheng family is the common jewel of the three families?"
"Then Fu Mizhen is taking advantage of the situation to pave the way for herself!"
"First of all, do you want to be famous? Although he almost won six yuan in a row before, he is famous throughout the country. But the scholar's rebellion has not been successful for three years. If he wants to gain military power, it will be difficult to use the talents of the number one scholar."
"But the military may not recognize the reputation of talent, but it may not recognize the reputation of wealth!"
"How can we march and fight without asking for money? To put it bluntly, people like Sheng Shixiong who ignore the rich and devote themselves to serving the country have been a minority in the past and the present. Most people are not "canglin" Those who know etiquette realistically."
"Especially in Western Xinjiang, people are very hungry. Although everyone at the lower levels is filling their own pockets, the people in Didong have been poor and sick for a long time. And everyone knows that the imperial court has focused on northern Xinjiang in recent years. The national treasury cannot give them too much. Allocate funds! Just for the sake of Sheng’s jaw-dropping dowry, they will all welcome Mi Zhen to come!”
"And after Mi Zhen went to Western Xinjiang, the people he needed to fight for were the people of Didong. As for the people at the upper level... If he didn't get rid of all those at the upper level, how could he give them to his direct descendants? This would not make room for the people on Tortoiseshell Island. ?!”
"Being rich and famous is a great benefit, but it can attract customers. Although the country has a way to advance through the imperial examination, there are always surprises. Since ancient times, there have never been fewer people who are full of talent and knowledge, but have failed in many trials. !”
"If those people don't want to remain anonymous, they can work as staff... For example, the gentlemen who give lectures to me are the learned people that my father worked so hard to recruit."
"It turns out that Mi Zhen is young. Even if he has passed the imperial examination and been awarded the title of county prince, his qualifications are not worth mentioning in the eyes of those truly sophisticated counselors."
"But if his marriage is arranged like this, the news will be spread by merchants traveling from north to south, and the whole country will want to know about his reputation... Based on his current experience, who can't admire him?"
"In this way, even if no counselor takes the initiative to join him, when he comes to recruit, the chance will be increased by 30%!"
"After all, for those who are proud of their talents, seeing a visitor who has never heard of it will waste time and ruin their reputation!"
"Secondly, do you want to attract Meng's attention?"
"He has talent and money. The mess in the Western Xinjiang Army is not a problem for him. The most difficult thing is time... My father and the Meng family have been at loggerheads for a long time. What about him? He has never gone to the West until now. Where is Xinjiang!"
"Meng didn't know that his father had separated from him, so he must have thought that his going to Western Xinjiang was not arranged by his father. How could he try every means to stumbling him?"
"And even if he is not an expert in intrigues, he is impatient to spend too much energy on this. Otherwise, he will throw out the pirates from the Seven Seas to the Meng family..."
When the King of Gaomi said that, there was a moment of bitterness in his tone, "We are fighting for it in exchange for the fact that we don't have time to take care of him?!"
What troubled King Gaomi the most was, "That conspiracy is so upright that even if his father and Meng see his intentions, they still can't give up Qihai's wealth! After all, we can know the history of the Sheng family with just a little research. : Did they become prosperous by selling stolen goods to Tortoiseshell Island? Not only did they become prosperous, they also abruptly changed the pattern of the Feng family and the Xuan Yu family in Nanfeng County equally dividing the whole world, turning the two powerful families into three powerful families!"
"In the past, we thought that in a small place like Nanfeng County, the big two or three big ones were just rich people from the countryside!"
"But that time the Sheng family's dowry was said to be 'as rich as the country'. Compared to our family's million-dollar dowry, it was simply shabby! Now that we know that Hai Zai's profits are so huge, and those pirates' families are so rich, ... I think we can easily let go of the bandits of the Seven Seas?"
No one has trouble with money.
Even powerful ministers and clans who are not at the top of the temple are no exception.
After all, although money is not always possible, in most things in this world, lack of money is absolutely impossible!
Not to mention that even if King Gaomi and the Meng family themselves could stop being obsessed with money and silk and pay more attention to power, not all of the people who seek refuge with them may have such determination!
As the saying goes, people who travel thousands of miles to get an official position are just for money. What do they want to do by standing in line
Maybe some people are trying to protect themselves, but they are probably not doing it for their own benefit.
As long as most people were interested in Qihai's money, King Gaomi and Meng had to take public opinion into consideration. After all, they really need the support of those people.
"So since we are competing with the Meng Family in the Seven Seas, how much time does Yong Tuo have to manage the Western Border?"
Even if he took care of it, there would definitely not be much attention and human legs to spare.
For Rong Sleeping Crane, no matter what, it is a good thing.
The best thing is that he cooperated with Rong Qingzhi's condition of recruiting Anhai bandits, forcing King Gaomi to agree to give him 70% of Qihai's income!
Seventy percent! ! !
King Gaomi slightly estimated the number of things and felt dizzy.
To be honest, he had the idea of beating Rong Suihe to death on the spot!
Helplessly, Rong Suihe insisted on the condition and refused to let go. He even threatened him when the King of Gaomi decided to break up: "It's okay for the prince to help you without asking him, but with Gongsun's connections in Qihai, it's more difficult to help him than to help him." It’s much easier! The prince arranges for the prince to go to recruit people, just to establish a capable image for the prince, but if the prince is beaten by the Meng family at every turn... The prince’s painstaking efforts are not only red money, but also to make the prince suffer humiliation, right? "
The King of Gaomi angrily slapped the table and cursed: "I am also Gu's heir and the Crown Prince's brother! If the Crown Prince is laughed at by others, what good will it do to me?"
It turned out that Rong Suihe was speechless with one sentence: "When the time comes when the prince's right-hand man sees that the prince can't help him, they will all think that he is better. After all, he is not the prince's heir and the prince's brother." No?"
He said very much, "And sharing Qihai's profits with him is the only way to ensure that he will do his best to help the prince! After all, the more people he recruits, the more he will earn, otherwise he will just recruit a few small groups of pirates to deal with the prince... Your Majesty. So what?"
What about the King of Gaomi
Then his biological son, whether he likes him or not, can't he be plotting his own death like an outsider
What's more, the princess was very present. At that time, the princess saw that her son was more desperate for her life than her own. King Gaomi was afraid of irritating the princess, so he had already restrained his legs and feet when he was fighting with Rong Suihe; If you don't worry about the life and death of your biological parents, you will simply fight with your biological father at all costs.
Taking into account the opinions of Sheng Weiqiao and the Yue family, I guess Rong Suihe's attitude may be more severe!
One was going down and the other was going up, even if King Gaomi had a large city, he would still have to give in to him step by step.
The most important thing is that the Crown Prince Rong Qingchui's talent is really not good enough. Even if King Gaomi decides to send his best and most trusted adviser to the Crown Prince on that trip, considering that the Meng family will not let go of the money-grabbing and recruiting man. If a person has a good opportunity, for the sake of safety, he can ask for help from Rong Suihe.
Then he could accept Rong Suihe's blackmail.
After the whole negotiation, the only consolation King Gaomi had was probably No. Rong Suihe said that he would settle matters with Princess Gaomi and promise not to let the princess come out to cause trouble.
But when he explained it to the prince, he suddenly thought of something: "That bastard doesn't care about being alone at all. Even if the princess pampers him in every possible way, it has little effect... He promised to convince the princess that he should Are you going to make the princess angry and run away?!"